Hiking the Grand Canyon

Hiking down the Grand Canyon is scary and breathe-taking and awe-inspiring.  Hiking up is literally a pain in the behind....and calves and feet. LOL   We actually did not go too far down, only about a mile.  The kids wanted to continue, but Tom and I were really concerned about the younger two's ability to make it back up!  It was hard, but they did great.  The older ones are already talking about coming back and hiking all the way down, camping out and hiking back up.  We saw a Marine hiking up with two big packs, one on his front and one on his back.  It was like he was carrying Elena and James...and hiking up the entire Grand Canyon!  It was amazing.   We planned to come back to the RV for dinner then head out for shopping and ice cream, but I was TIRED after such a busy day, so we just stayed in.  We are headed to Colorado today.  We have rather drastically changed our itenerary to lighten amount of driving the RV has to do, so we will not be seeing Carlsbad Caverns nor Crater of Diamonds.  So we don't have much in the way of plans for the next few days. We will have to see what kinds of adventures we can russle up.  :)